Members of the Royal Australian Navy and staff from General Electric with the LM2500 Gas Turbine.

More often thought of as what powers aircraft traversing the skies, the gas turbine is also what gives many Australian Navy ships their get up and go. For maintainers of those gas turbines, training is on the improve.

For most, milestones are easy to recognise: a birthday here, an anniversary there, but aircrew mark their growing experience by meticulously logging hours flown, with appropriate accolades from friends and colleagues as the total number soars.

Published on July 04, 2017 by CPL Mark Doran (author and photographer)

Australian Army officer and Qualified Flying Instructor Captain Adrian Ludman of the Joint Helicopter School demonstrates one of the Airbus EC135 T2+ flight simulators in use in the Helicopter Advanced Training System facility at HMAS Albatross.

The aircraft set to train Australian Defence Force aviators is an impressive piece of kit.